Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) back in 2018 as she embarked on her first run as congresscritter from New York. Then she promptly forgot to renew her membership. Oops.

AOC evidently had more things taxing her brain of unremarkable size these last seven years and recently renewed her membership.

In 2018, a first-time congressional candidate named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez signed up for an annual membership to join the Democratic Socialists of America. Over the next eight years, AOC became the most famous DSA member in the U.S., breaking records for small-donor fundraising and serving as a key endorser for other DSA candidates like Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

But for much of that time, AOC was not technically a member of DSA. Her annual membership expired in 2019, and she apparently never renewed it.

Of course, as New York’s chapter of the same commies who steered Mamdani to victory gathered to urge AOC to run for the Oval Office in 2028, it became a bit of an embarrassment to find out that she just wasn’t one of us anymore. Not that she is every commie’s cup of vodka …

However, the DSA at large has become intensely divided over Ocasio-Cortez’s suitability as the organization’s flag bearer in the Democratic primary.

For example, the DSA’s Liberation Caucus, a Maoist faction of the group, last week “condemn[ed] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s continued retreat from socialist politics and rejects any effort to present her as the future presidential standard-bearer for DSA …” Just the News reported.

The group specifically cited the lawmakers’ vote for a bill that defended Israel’s right to exist and for meeting with leaders from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.

AOC is trying to thread the needle to the Democrat’s nomination by pretending to be a centrist while still touting her commie creds to the leftwing donor class.

She’s about as genuine as her contextual accents …

🔥 LMAO! AOC whipped out her BLACK ACCENT today while speaking to a crowd of Al Sharpton's bussed-in black folks in DC

And SEVERAL TIMES the "accent" started slipping, causing her to stutter 🤣

These people are so fake 😂

"There is a TIIIIDE RISIN' in this country, brothers… pic.twitter.com/pPxCXGXt1P

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 28, 2026

Behind that toothy grin is an ego as big as Neptune and just as much a gas giant. Now with just more Mao seasoning.

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